Tricking Bridge to make live changes when using Auto-CSV Completed

Amy Skyles

Hi all,

I just wanted to share more of an "aha moment" that we recently had. Maybe it will be helpful to others as well. We use auto-CSV for upload. We learned early that our "training" account would be deleted every day when the CSV ran so we changed its permissions to account admin to prevent that problem. We can now use it for lots of testing in our production account. 

Recently, we knew that one of our smart groups needed an update. The group needed to include a job title that is currently vacant. Because there isn's a user with this title, it doesn't exist in Bridge as an option to select. We didn't want to have to watch for when that title became active again, and sometimes we don't really know when that happens anyway. We searched for that training account user and clicked edit. We gave it the title we needed so that this vacant title would show up as a smart group option. It worked perfectly! We were able to add that job title to the smart group and then remove the title from that dummy user before deploying the smart group to a course. This strategy would work for any of the fields you use for smart groups so I really wanted to share.

Have a great day!

Amy

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